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Bud

02-20-1999 16:21:14




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Everytime I try to do something I usually spend more time fixing something than actually using it. How many more people have this problem?




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Bruce

02-22-1999 04:37:05




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 Re: Am I the only one in reply to Bud, 02-20-1999 16:21:14  
I think anybody & everybody that uses ANY kind of machine is in the same boat! It does get to be a little, no, make that ALOT frustrating, but it's the nature of the beast.
Look at the alternative, move to the city, live in an apartment & pay the rent. Or live in a house & pay someone else to do the work. Then what would you do w/ your free time? I know I'd get in trouble REAL quick & be divorced! Then, I'd end up with a different kind of additional payments - alimoney.....
Keep your chin up..... .

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Wayne

02-20-1999 19:26:32




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 Re: Am I the only one in reply to Bud, 02-20-1999 16:21:14  
Between finding, getting out of storage, setting up, adjusting, fixing, and putting away, if you are lucky you get a little time to actually use something. Chain saw for me would have the lowest time of use percentage followed by weed whipper!



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Paul Fox

02-21-1999 05:54:52




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 Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Wayne, 02-20-1999 19:26:32  
I'm with ya on the weed whipper. Between fixing the *#$% centrifugal clutch every time I use it and getting the string feed to work, I'd be farther ahead to do it with a pair of scissors.

Way ahead of ya on the chainsaw tho. Touch up the chain, fill it up with bar oil and gas, and my Stihl runs like the Energizer Bunny! I quit because I'm tuckered out, not because I have problems with the saw. Wish everything I owned ran that good.

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charles

03-12-1999 23:03:34




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 Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Paul Fox, 02-21-1999 05:54:52  
I've used a Stihl. Kind of tough but heavy. Expensive parts. I've done better buying cheap Poulans and throwing them away after 3 years.



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charles

03-12-1999 23:03:10




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 Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Paul Fox, 02-21-1999 05:54:52  
I've used a Stihl. Kind of tough but heavy. Expensive parts. I've done better buying cheap Poulans and throwing them away after 3 years.



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Ludwig

03-04-1999 09:37:12




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 Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Paul Fox, 02-21-1999 05:54:52  
Don't buy a cheap weed whipper, and take that string thing and throw it.
Get the little plastic what's its. The kind that pivot off of a wheel that bolts to the machine. They eat stuff better than string and last a long time. Just be really carefull around stuff you like.
Great uncle spend $700 (I think) on his whipper, and the thing runs so well and has such good balance that I can run it for an hour or more before the vibrations make me have to go to the bathroom.....
But I don't get too beat up like I have on some other machines.

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Tom from Ontario

02-20-1999 19:37:19




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 Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Wayne, 02-20-1999 19:26:32  

Bud: I think that's why we're all here swapping ideas and knowledge. I would rather fix and fiddle with this elderly iron than make payments on the shiny iron. No, you are not alone with getting steamed around non-stop fixing. Happens with the new stuff too, only then it's warranty. Tom



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Wayne

02-21-1999 08:23:12




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 Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Tom from Ontario, 02-20-1999 19:37:19  
I am afraid that what is in our "genes" dooms us to part of our place in life. My grandfather and father have had the ability to fix and adjust machinery and did not have the ability to make a lot of money so consequently we end up buying things that are in need of repair and putting a lot of hours of effort into fixing.
It is rewarding when things go right and frustrating when they don't.
I agree the new stuff doesn't always run without problems either, especially in the startup time. but you get somebody else to be mad at.
Happiness is when at the end of a day or year, the "to fix" list is shorter or different.

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shaun from Wisconsin

02-21-1999 05:44:35




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 Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Tom from Ontario, 02-20-1999 19:37:19  
Don’t feel so bad soon after a good fixen I generally get out to lets say to make hay, it will then start to rain, so heading for home I blow a tire on the baler in the softest part of the field, then of course get stuck in the mud, and by the time I’ve walked half way home it starts hailing # 9 fry pans. This making me run I rupture a GROIN. Now steaming at the collar, I jump on another tractor run it out to the field with 15000 LB’s of chain, remember (Ruptured groin) and when I get out in the field it stops raining, that’s when I run out of fuel. And the day has just started. Aaaahhhh what fun

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Mama

02-24-1999 19:46:47




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to shaun from Wisconsin, 02-21-1999 05:44:35  
I told you there would be days like this!



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Bud

02-21-1999 20:57:41




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to shaun from Wisconsin, 02-21-1999 05:44:35  

This sounds like a day at my farm but I guess I wouldn't trade farm life for anything. Thanks for all the input.



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Dick Davis

02-24-1999 06:21:33




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Am I the only one in reply to Bud, 02-21-1999 20:57:41  
There has to be a way to make money here somewhere! Buy a video camera, put it on automatic to record one of your average fix up days and then sell the results to "Real TV" or "America's Funniest Home Video" either way you will have almost enough to buy a small used tractor. Or your estate will be enriched. Dick



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